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Film Festival President Dedicates Documentary to Fidel Castro

CUBA, December 6, 2006.- The documentary "People and Thoughts" was dedicated to Fidel Castro by President of the New Latin American Film Festival, Alfredo Guevara, at the opening ceremony of the 23 edition of this prestigious event organized by Cuba every year.

Guevara said that the documentary aims to preserve the images, speeches and crucial moments of national culture. He also highlighted the interest of President Fidel Castro in spreading the best of universal culture and said the staging of the Havana Festival each year is a political commitment that spotlights the continents new found identity.

Likewise, the Cuban Film Institute's founding director Alfredo Guevara welcomed the audience along with a stellar performance by Cuban pianist Aldo Lopez Gavilan, backed by a band of young musicians including members of the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory.

The 28th New Latin American Cinema Festival opened Tuesday in Havana with the screening of Pan's Labyrinth, a film by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro that artfully combines a magical fairytale with the crude reality of post-Civil War Spain and which kept the audience on the edge of their seats throughout.

Havana's Film Festival takes place at 18 theaters around the Cuban capital and includes in its competition full length fiction, documentary and short films, from or on Latin America, as well as a selection from several European countries and Canada and three independent productions about Latin Americans living in the United States. (Cubaminrex- Cuban News Agency)

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